On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, David Combs wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 11:16:49AM +0000, RobertM wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Just an idle thought I had that Ithought I'd share. Given that WAP
> > seems to be the new "next best thing" at the moment, and it's designed
> > for use on devices with small screens and limited graphics capability.
> > It would seem to me that a lot of wml pages are going to be far more
> ...
>
> Please, just what does "WAP" and "wml" mean?
WAP is Wireless Application Protocol - protocol used by wireless clients such
as cellular phones to connect to Inet.
WML - wireless markup language - it's SGML DTD designed for representing
document structure like HTML, but it more targeted at interactivity with the
user (ie specifying hotkeys) etc.
Seems in the near future it will be possible to do take part in auctions, buy
goods etc via cell phones thanks to this protocol.
For more info, visit www.phone.com. There are SDKs available for free (or at
least docs, as I remember).
As for WML/WAP in lynx - I suspect that huge license fees are need to be paid
to protocol designers in order to allow support for this protocol in the
browser (or something like this - AFAIR).
> Thanks
>
> David
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
